Project Gutenberg 2010-09-10 Public domain in the USA. 61 Holcombe, William H. (William Henry) 1825 1893 Holcombe, William Henry Holcombe, W. H. (William Henry) 12004690 The Alternative: A Separate Nationality; or, The Africanization of the South Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Alternative: A Separate Nationality; or, The Africanization of the South" by Wm. H. Holcombe, M.D. is a historical account written in the early 1860s. The book delves into the contentious debates surrounding slavery in the United States, particularly focusing on Southern perspectives amidst rising abolitionist sentiments in the North. Holcombe presents a defense of slavery as a necessary institution for both economic and moral reasons, arguing that it is essential for the Southern way of life and for the alleged upliftment of African people. In this treatise, Holcombe outlines what he perceives as an inevitable divide between Northern and Southern states, framing the struggle as one between the survival of slavery and the "Africanization" of the South. He argues that the abolition of slavery would not only lead to social and economic collapse in the South but also to a devastating loss of identity for the Southern states. Holcombe calls for Southern unity in the face of Northern aggression and maintains that the South must either establish a separate nation or face destruction. Throughout the work, he attempts to frame this division as a natural and providential outcome of differing cultural and racial ideologies, solidifying his pro-slavery stance against the tide of abolitionist thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33696/33696-h/images/cover.jpg en Slavery -- United States United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861 Secession E300 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 56923 56934 2024-09-14T08:25:10.334074 2023-09-15T03:49:56.091245 text/html text/html 52982 2010-09-10T07:55:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 76052 2010-09-10T07:55:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 78982 2024-09-14T08:25:12.069041 application/epub+zip 77776 2024-09-14T08:25:10.663061 application/epub+zip 77775 2024-09-14T08:25:10.480037 application/epub+zip 113166 2024-09-14T08:25:13.350023 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 104060 2024-09-14T08:25:11.884020 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 104174 2022-09-15T11:15:54.589291 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 50066 49859 2024-09-14T08:25:10.233046 2023-09-15T03:49:55.994242 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 49919 2010-09-10T07:55:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19225 2010-09-10T07:55:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18700 2024-09-14T08:25:13.480062 application/rdf+xml 20251 2024-09-14T08:25:10.548031 image/jpeg 3122 2024-09-14T08:25:10.514038 image/jpeg 84151 2024-09-14T08:25:10.343088 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog